false 445976 169 2888469 book 1865 Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics) total:1679|5:693|4:568|3:313|2:79|1:26| 1679 6860 3066 196 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 5 false Thu Sep 27 11:48:55 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 03:14:41 -0800 2007 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 0 4 false Sat Aug 02 02:21:22 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 10:24:36 -0700 2008 inner life of a dinner table the family had nicknamed "Twemlow".

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Reading them is better. I believe this is Dickens' last work; it may well be...more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 2 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu May 01 19:14:47 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 20:16:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 271283 0140434976 9780140434972 91 13 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225898319m/271283.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271283.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 2 false Wed May 16 18:32:44 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 17:45:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 1 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jan 09 00:59:44 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 01:08:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 07:10:25 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 19:50:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 4 0 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:33:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:33:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 0 false Fri Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 19 15:30:39 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 15:32:25 -0700 2009
Immediately upon starting Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend," I was struck by parallels with Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo." Both big novels revolve around a powerful character who conceals his identity in a complicated plot to obtain social justice....more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 0 false Mon Jun 29 17:18:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 19:19:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:18:26 -0700 2009
Mr. Venus, taxidermist and "articulator of bones," is easily his most extreme character.

Also, lots of reflections on language in this one, some funnier than others:

'Too dry for you, eh? Well, I suppose it wants some years of sticki...more...]]> 271283 0140434976 9780140434972 91 13 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225898319m/271283.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/271283.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 4 false Tue Jul 14 09:57:59 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 21:35:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 09:57:59 -0700 2009 Our Mutual Friend, I believe that I may well have just finished reading the finest book written in the English language. One could perhaps argue that the prose of Austen in her novel Emma is more perfect; but the plotting and characters of Dickens in Our Mutual Friend is exquisite. O...more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 1 false Tue Aug 21 16:25:21 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 16:30:39 -0700 2007 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 3 1 true Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 09:31:05 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 13:40:12 -0800 2009
THE DETAILS:
Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic ...more...]]> 830540 0679420282 9780679420286 11 4 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223635181m/830540.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830540.Our_Mutual_Friend 3 0 false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Sep 17 12:53:34 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 04:53:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 4 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jan 06 17:59:08 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 18:06:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 4 0 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 01:46:42 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 04 13:34:34 -0800 2009
Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic novel.

A father and daughter on the Thames at night, and tied to their boat a lifeless shape bobs in the water.

Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings
Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard...more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 0 false Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 24 11:44:56 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 11:53:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 1 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 1986 Wed Apr 08 15:08:58 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 11:26:22 -0700 2009 Little Dorrit, which I read years after this. Our Mutual Friend is a denser novel that reminds me a bit of Thomas Hardy. Dickens allows himself to get darker and deeper than he does in his other novels. I think people who are always left wanting more from Dickens will be de...more...]]> 31244 0375761144 9780375761140 1471 163 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168272815m/31244.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31244.Our_Mutual_Friend 5 0 false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 13:16:36 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 19:35:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 844708 1853261947 9781853261947 12 2 4.09 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178843764m/844708.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/844708.Our_Mutual_Friend 4 4 false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 21 05:46:18 -0800 2009 Sun May 31 06:18:23 -0700 2009 Our Mutual Friend, the readers are taken to the dark side of Victorian society. And by dark, I do not always mean the world of the working class. In fact, here we’re served with the high class society, whose...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2378582